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QT Creator vs Emacs

QT Creator vs Emacs

Posted Dec 11, 2009 0:36 UTC (Fri) by juhl (subscriber, #33245)
In reply to: A look at Qt 4.6 by ikm
Parent article: A look at Qt 4.6

I have to disagree. I still prefer Emacs.
Creator still chokes on too much valid C++, crashes too frequently and is pretty slow. No thanks. It gives me nothing that I don't already get (better) from Emacs...


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QT Creator vs Emacs

Posted Dec 11, 2009 8:25 UTC (Fri) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

Crashes? I've been using Qt Creator for about a year now, every day, on three platforms, for projects between 40,000 and 1,000,000 lines of code, and I've never had a crash since it came out of beta. Maybe it's because I freshly compile Qt Creator every morning after doing a git pull... And compared to, for instance, the speed with which Emacs fontifies some of the bigger legacy classes in my projects, Qt Creator is extremely fast. I've stopped using Emacs altogether for my C++ projects now, in fact.

And since nothing in Emacs can do the kind of smart code insight Qt Creator offers (well, KDevelop is even better at that, but KDevelop is still a beta), I've actually gained a lot in productivity.

So, if it's been some time since you last tried Qt Creator, like, since the first beta, give it another try.

QT Creator vs Emacs

Posted Dec 11, 2009 20:25 UTC (Fri) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link]

Emacs is too broad, scattered out thin, horizontally-oriented and lispy for me to be usable. It reminds me of a GTA-like sandbox game. There's a sandbox and then there are lisp scripts in it lying flatly. This is very different from Qt Creator -- the latter in much more vertical in its design, and it shows.

Anyway, it's still a matter of preferences. One should check out both, of course -- it's just that one would presume 'emacs' was tried (even at least once) by everybody here among LWN crowd already.

QT Creator vs Emacs

Posted Dec 13, 2009 18:26 UTC (Sun) by MarkWilliamson (guest, #30166) [Link]

"It reminds me of a GTA-like sandbox game."

That made my day!

QT Creator vs Emacs

Posted Dec 12, 2009 10:39 UTC (Sat) by kelvie (subscriber, #60620) [Link]

I still do use emacs, because my fingers' muscle memory refuses to use anything else, but I do agree for people that aren't tainted like me that Qt Creator is a better for developing Qt apps ...

You don't get odd behaviours in indentation such as indenting Q_OBJECT correctly, and I've never quite gotten semantic/CEDET working right with Qt projects.

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